Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

Died in 1683

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein was born in 1635 in Nimptsch, in Silesia, the son of an imperial customs collector ennobled in 1670. He attended the Magdalenengymnasium in Breslau, studied law in Leipzig and then in Tübingen, travelled, and settled as a lawyer in Breslau. Counsellor at the court of Oels in 1668, syndic of Breslau in 1670, chief syndic in 1675, he negotiated in Vienna and obtained from the emperor the withdrawal of an edict that ordered the dismissal of Protestant schoolmasters. His tragedies have led him to be regarded as the greatest Baroque dramatist after Gryphius. He died of apoplexy in Breslau in 1683.

In the catalogue 1

NovelGroßmütiger Feldherr ArminiusDaniel Casper von Lohenstein · 1689not translated into EnglishLiterature